Matt's Blog
28th August 2010 - Summer Holiday
If you’ve been wondering about the lack of activity and serious photography on my website, Facebook page or Twitterfeed recently don’t worry, I haven’t given up photography, it’s just that it’s the summer holiday
Anyone who had kids of school age will know what that means, additional hours and days spent entertaining the children [...]
25th July 2010 - Try Something New
It’s always good to try your hand at areas of photography that are out of your comfort zone, and motor sport photography certainly falls into that category for me. The most movement I normally have to contend with is a strong breeze in my landscapes or an over-active toddler in my portraits, not a 600cc [...]
29th June 2010 - Photography vs Art
Where does photography stop and art begin? Now I’m not being faecetious here – I know that a lot of photography IS art – what I’m asking is when an image ceases to be a photograph because it has been manipulated too much. The distinction used to be clear because manipulation of an image was [...]
12th June 2010 - Photomarathon UK 2010
Until today I had no idea what a Photomarathon entailed. Sure, I’d had a flick through the information they had sent me when I had registered but hadn’t really given it much thought – after all how difficult was it going to be to take 12 pictures in 12 hours! Very as it turned out…
For [...]
24th May 2010 - Who Uses Film?
It’s now been over two years since I last used film (if you don’t know what I’m talking about stop reading now and welcome to the world of photography!). It’s not that I don’t like film – I had a makeshift darkroom in my bedroom as a teenager and have used film most of my [...]